SIGNED BY THE ARTIST
Six Plates from: Atlantic Salmon Fishing
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1937. Pleissner, Ogden. SIGNED BY THE ARTIST. Each of the 6 plates from... Read More
Price: $1,500
Sports & Games
Rare books, first editions, prints and original art related to sports and leisure. Specializing in angling/fishing, fencing, golf, polo, hunting/shooting and the Derrydale Press.
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Prose Halieutics or Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle.
London: John W. Parker and Son, 1854. First edition. The writer's purpose is "to treat of fish ichthyophagously, not ichthyologically, and to give, not fish-science, but fish-tattle." (Prefatory notice).
Price: $225
Prose Halieutics or Ancient and Modern Fish Tattle.
London: John W. Parker and Son, West End, 1854. The writer’s purpose is “to treat of fish ichthyophagously, not ichthyologically, and to give, not fish-science, but fish-tattle.” (Prefatory notice).
Price: $175
Bound Volume of The Year Books 1938-1948 of The Badminton Club of New York.
New York: 1938-1948. President's own copy so marked on the spine.
Price: $250
Automobile Quarterly. The Connoisseur's Periodical of Motoring Today, Yesterday and Tomorrow. Volume One Number One Spring 1962-Volume Six Number One...
New York: Automobile Quarterly, Inc, 1962-Summer 1967.
Price: $500
The Fly Fisher's Guide.
Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris' Widow and Brothers, 1834. Third Edition. Among the earliest books with colored plates of flies. "One of the text books of the fly-fisher." (Westwood & Satchell).
Price: $1,200
The Fly Fisher's Guide.
Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris' Widow and Brothers, 1816. First edition. Among the earliest books with colored plates of flies. "One of the text books of the fly-fisher." (Westwood & Satchell).
Price: $2,250
The Fly Fisher’s Guide.
Liverpool: Printed for the Author by G.F. Harris’ Widow and Brothers, 1816. First edition. Among the earliest books with colored plates of flies. “One of the text books of the fly-fisher.” (Westwood & Satchell).
Price: $2,000
![Deep Sea Big Game Fishing, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. A Special Article … [Cover title:] Rough Guide to New Zealand Big Game Fishing. C. Alma Baker.](/pictures/thumb/261732.jpg?v=1534806683)
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Deep Sea Big Game Fishing, Bay of Islands, New Zealand. A Special Article … [Cover title:] Rough Guide to New...
Glasgow: Printed for Private Circulation by Robert Maclehose & Co., Ltd, 1937. First edition. Scarce.
Price: $750
Indian Pigeons and Doves.
London: Witherby and Co, 1913. First Edition. Intended as a guide for the sportsman as well as the specialist, the volume forms a scarce companion to Baker’s Indian Ducks and Their Allies.
Price: $400
Flying Salmon. A Practical Book of Instruction dealing with all methods of Spinning for Salmon.
London: Longamns, Green and Co, [1938]. First Edition. The publisher’s stock of the first edition (1938) was destroyed during the bombing of London.
Price: $250
Broncho.
London: Country Life Ltd, 1930. First edition, Number Fourteen of 200 copies, signed by the Author and Illustrator.
Price: $200
Sporting Reminiscences of South America 1919-1921. H.M.S. Southhampton.
London: Riddle, Smith & Duffus, [1922]. Excellent, well illustrated narrative of the sporting travels of a Briton with a post-war appointment to South America, with accounts of shooting duck, geese, and upland game, as well as hunting deer, carpincho, peccary, guanaco; and some angling for trout and salmon in Chile.
Price: $75
“Scarce” — Bruns
Men, Fish and Tackle: The Story of J.A. Coxe as told to Ralph Bandini.
Bronson, MI: Published Privately by the Bronson Reel Company, May 1, 1936. First edition. “Scarce” — Bruns. Reminiscences of big game fishing and fishermen by the inventor of the famous Coxe reels (published by the company into which his company merged, and not entirely free of some informative promotion!). Bandini...
Price: $600
Scarce Bandini title in Variant Binding
Tight Lines.
Los Angeles: Tight Lines Publishers, 1932. One of 500 copies (this copy unnumbered and out of series). Scarce Bandini title in Variant Binding.
Price: $2,250
Veiled Horizons: Stories of Big Game Fish of the Sea.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1939. First edition, one of 950 copies.
Price: $300
The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces.
New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. First edition. Inscribed "To Robert Howard Russell/ with affectionate regards/ John Kendrick Bangs/ May 16, 1896. " Publication date March, 1896. Rusell was Bangs's publisher for "Emblemland." and a famous publisher in the 1890s and beyond. A nice association.
Price: $250
"The Bicyclers. A Farce" produced as "Curtain Raiser at the Knapp Mansion, Feb. 24, 1894"
Feb. 24, 1894. Extract.
Price: $100
The Crack Shot; or, Young Rifleman’s Complete Guide: Being a Treatise on the Use of the Rifle.
New York: Geo. E. Woodward, [1873]. Second edition.
Price: $150
’Long Shore. Foreword by Gordon Grand. Illustrations by Arthur D. Fuller.
New York: The Derrydale Press, [1939]. Fuller, Arthur D. First Edition, One of 750 copies, this one marked “HH” on the box label and the colophon, and signed by the author.
Price: $750
Superb Copy, Inscribed
'Long Shore. Foreword by Gordon Grand.
New York: The Derrydale Press, [1939]. Fuller, Arthur D. Limited Edition. Number 276 of 750 numbered copies, signed by the author. Superb Copy, Inscribed. Inscribed "Joel Barber with kindest regards to David Wagstaff."
Price: $750
Superb Copy
'Long Shore. Foreword by Gordon Grand.
New York: The Derrydale Press, [1939]. Fuller, Arthur D. Limited edition. Number 488 of 750 numbered copies, signed by the author. Superb Copy.
Price: $750
Wild Fowl Decoys.
New York: The Derrydale Press, 1934. First Edition, No. 14 of 55 large paper copies, signed by the author. "One of the most important books published by Connett." - Siegel Published in an edition of only 55 copies, this, in effect, was the Derrydale "De luxe" edition of Barber's book: the...
Price: $5,000